5: The Book of the Fives
53. Factors
- A Saddhamma Study Group translation from the Pāḷi text.
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0 source: sāvatthi.
1 There are, O bhikkhus, these five factors for [pursuing] what is worth striving for. Which five?
2 Here, O bhikkhus, a bhikkhu is one of faith. He has faith in the awakening of the Tathagata: “Truly is he the Auspicious One, the Arahant, rightly self-awakened, excelling in knowledge and conduct, well-farer, knower of worlds, incomparable charioteer of tamed persons, teacher of devas and humans, awakened, auspicious.”
3 He is one of little affliction, of little illness, endowed with good digestion, having a digestion that is not too cold, not too hot, but moderate for endurance in striving.
4 He is honest, not deceitful, one who reveals himself to the Teacher or his wise companions in the life of purity.
5 He abides firm in energy for the abandoning of unwholesome dhammas, for the attainment of wholesome dhammas. He is a strong one, an energetic one, not laying aside the responsibilities in [striving for] wholesome dhammas.
6 He is a wise one, endowed with wisdom that sees arising and extinction, which is of the noble, penetrative stock that leads to the thorough obliteration of suffering.
7 “These, O bhikkhus, are the five factors for [pursuing] what is worth striving for.”
0 sāvatthi nidānaṃ:
1 pañcimāni bhikkhave padhāniyaṅgāni. katamāni pañca?
2 idha bhikkhave bhikkhu saddho hoti saddahati tathāgatassa bodhiṃ: itipi so bhagavā arahaṃ sammāsambuddho vijjācaraṇasampanno sugato lokavidū anuttaro purisadammasārathī satthā devamanussānaṃ buddho bhagavāti.
3 appābādho hoti appātaṅko samavepākiniyā gahaṇiyā samannāgato nātisītāya nāccuṇhāya majjhimāya padhānakkhamāya.
4 asaṭho hoti amāyāvī yathābhūtaṃ attānaṃ āvikattā satthari vā viññūsu vā sabrahmacārīsu.
5 āraddhaviriyo viharati akusalānaṃ dhammānaṃ pahānāya kusalānaṃ dhammānaṃ upasampadāya thāmavā daḷhaparakkamo anikkhittadhuro kusalesu dhammesu.
6 paññavā hoti udayatthagāminiyā paññāya samannāgato ariyāya nibbedhikāya sammā dukkhakkhayagāminiyā.
7 imāni kho bhikkhave pañca padhāniyaṅgānī'ti.